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    Have you ever seen someone in a relationship with someone (often abusive) who they’ve built up a fantasy of their partner and fully believe that person to be the same one as the ideal they’ve crafted in their head? And they ignore clear red flags, make apologies and excuses for that person, and heartily swallow any and all lies that person tells as a way of holding onto that fantasy? And then when they finally snap, reach a breaking point and that person turns on them and they see them for who they really are and tell themselves that the person changed because they can’t face the idea that they were complicit in that person’s behavior and don’t want to believe they were capable of enabling them? This is the political version of that.

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    I see what happened. They all started going mask off, except by the time all of them got to their real faces the old orange shit still had a stack of masks to go through. You can tell a few of them started peeling off their real faces for a bit to try and fit in while others started to realize he doesn’t actually have a face, it’s just all masks, and it always has been.

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    But honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trump tweet with so much accurate information. Just remove the last part about maga being cool and shit.

    Now, if he really wants to discuss people that are stupid and full of shit, I have some bad news for him. But let’s leave it here and hopes he continues rambling like that, I’ll make sure not to get low on popcorn.

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      It’s LLM-generated. I’ve seen this tweet discussed in a few different places now and I’m surprised I’m the only one pointing this out.

      The spelling, grammar and sentence structure are too good for it to be Trump. It’s too coherent and fact-based, but it’s also too cohesive. It meanders like Trump, but then it gets back to the point. It’s presenting a formulaic argument. That’s something LLMs always do and Trump never does.

      It’s also loaded with em dashes. There is no possibility that Trump used an em dash on purpose.

      Trump probably put the prompt into ChatGPT himself and then didn’t bother to read it.

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          fucking hilarious if Barron got ahold of the golden phone and trolled his sperm donor by making a shit post in his name that turned into an international incident. Bonus points if Trumple Shitbrains assumed he had just forgotten he posted it and figured oh well I guess this is my policy now.

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    At least she admits that she hasn’t changed. that means she is still an utter piece of shit despite her pr campaign

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      To be fair he did, he’s been noticably more erratic and confrontational then his first term. This isn’t to say his first term was a model of stability and good governance, just that he is definitely declining mentally.

      This doesn’t excuse her support for him earlier, but if she wants to push dementia don out, I’m not gonna get in her way.

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        He’s the same but unfiltered. Which you can argue is a change, but the underlying personality and (complete lack of) values are the same. He’s always turned on sycophants for the slightest reason, he’s always ranted delusionally, he’s always been a narcissist who cares about petty and meaningless awards, he’s always been a corrupt grifter, he’s always full of threats and bravado who chafes at any restrictions on his impulses, he’s always been a shitty deal maker whose only tactic is escalation and starts out so aggressive he doesn’t leave himself any room to negotiate, he’s always been racist and misogynistic, he’s always been stupid, ignorant, and incurious but still believes he’s smarter and more knowledgeable than anyone else.

        None of those qualities changed. The only things that have changed are:

        • His dementia has gotten worse and his grasp on reality has weakened.
        • He’s now completely surrounded by sycophantic yes men who won’t question or push back on his worst impulses.
        • He’s faced so few consequences for his craziest impulses and corruption that he no longer feels any constraint, which is exacerbated by the previous two points.
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        She’s going to push in some other fuckup racist shitbag in his place.

        She’s not on our side, she’s just not on Donnie’s anymore either.

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      She’s just confirming we should never trust a word she says. Trump is doing everything we feared he’d do. None of it is truly surprising.

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      Yeah. She sounds like “we thought our leopard was better-trained” when the issue was she thought she was in control of the beast or even valuable to his real handlers at any point in this.

      I worry she’s gonna discover how expendable everyone in his orbit truly is, and how his true handlers (Russia via Melania, Israel via whoever took over for Epstein) value America and Americans so very little.

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    We NEVER changed. Trump did.

    Both statements are false. Horsey and co changed but only in a superficial way, they’re still absolutely deplorable garbage. Trump is too stupid to learn, his motivation is somehow less than one dimensional, he couldn’t change for a bajillion dollars but he’ll happily lie to your face about it.

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    Trump didn’t change either. All the people mentioned in this post, including MTG herself, are old duffel bags full of horse shit, stolen money and lies.

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    She has as much right to act outraged and self-righteous about Trump as a former smoker to shout at someone’s cigarette.

    SHE MADE TRUMP! The only honorable course of action for her is to shut the fuck up and humbly ask for forgiveness.

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      as a former smoker

      More like a smoker who switched to vaping. She still agrees with him on most issues, but finally realized that she didn’t approve of pedophilia. Most people don’t need a decade to finally come to the realization that raping kids is bad, but I guess Marge got there eventually.

      That tiny little issue aside, get them in a room talking about (((the globalists))) and they’ll be showing off their swastika tattoos in no time. Maybe in another decade she’ll change her mind on that and get hers (space) lasered off, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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      Don’t sleep on falling on her own sword. That’s always an option, and it’s one that I, personally, would recommend for her.

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      Your parents ever tell you “I brought you into this world I can take you out”? Maybe she should apply that kind of energy to Trump.

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    Notice Trump’s little gem of Marjorie “Traitor” Brown. Brown, not Greene, because brown is the color of poo.